Custom Component Style Preservation
During my time as a custom UI component developer for Xcelsius, I have encountered user interface styling and skinning loss at Xcelsius runtime and recently spoke to several developers who have...
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NEWS: First FleXcelsius Bootcamp!!
Interested in learning how to use the Xcelsius SDK? Then don’t miss this one time opportunity to learn from the best of best, none other than the FleXcelsius Gurus, as Centigon Solutions hosts the...
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Break Boundaries with Custom Components
A commonly requested feature in SCDD custom components (formerly Xcelsius 2008) is the ability to share data between custom components, across separate SWF files. Usually, developers turn to Flash Vars...
View ArticleGauges and Globes – Highly effective, ineffective dashboards
In his article “The Slow Death of a Gauge,” Ryan Goodman makes a number of great points about the use of gauges in dashboards and he is absolutely correct, for many reasons, gauges are not a great way...
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Breaking Boundaries with Custom Components Pt 2
Last week we showed you how to share data between swf files in an SCDD dashboard. One limitation was that the shared data was not coming back up through the SCDD Excel model in a manner that native...
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HTML5 + Xcelsius: Local Data Storage
Xcelsius does not have a built-in feature that allows the storage of local data, a commonly requested piece of functionality. Up until very recently there has been no really easy way to accomplish it...
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Basic Custom Data Grid Component for Xcelsius
Basic Data Grid Recently, a person new to the SDK asked how to create a custom read-only data grid component for Xcelsius. Luckily, this is fairly easy to achieve with one read-only property...
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Where to get SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius) Add-Ons
For those of you who have looked to the “Get More Add-Ons” link inside of Xcelsius, you may have noticed that there are no longer add-ons available. Over the last year, it looks like SAP has been...
View ArticleExtending the Xcelsius SDK
The Xcelsius SDK as it stands today is a set of core functionality that provides developers with the ability to inject virtually any type of Flex application or component into the Xcelsius designer....
View ArticleXcelsius SDK Tips
During everyday development with the Xcelsius SDK there are quite a few things that can be taken for granted once you get comfortable with the technology and process. These “for-granteds” can often be...
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